Famous Quotes - Tags - Naturalist
- . . . the ship struck at ten minutes after four A.M., and all hands, being mostly in their... More
- A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners,... More
- A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no... More
- A church that can never have done with excommunicating Christ while it exists! Away with your... More
- A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a... More
- A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers,... More
- A counterfeiting law-factory, standing half in a slave land and half in a free! What kind of laws... More
- A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in... More
- A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can... More
- A few pieces of fat pine were a great treasure. It is interesting to remember how much of this... More
- A few years before I lived in the woods there was what was called a “winged cat” in one of... More
- A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and... More
- A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of... More
- A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and... More
- A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck. More
- A great proportion of architectural ornaments are literally hollow, and a September gale would... More
- A great proportion of the inhabitants of the Cape are always thus abroad about their teaming on... More
- A hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits. More
- A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart. More
- A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the... More
- A hero’s love is as delicate as a maiden’s. More
- A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking... More
- A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than... More
- A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread. More
- A man is not a good man to me because he will feed me if I should be starving, or warm me if I... More
- A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. More
- A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine. More
- A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish... More
- A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road. More
- A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it. More
- A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will... More
- A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman. More
- A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all,... More
- A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of... More
- A man shall perhaps rush by and trample down plants as high as his head, and cannot be said to... More
- A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. More
- A man was to live in that egg-shell day and night, a mile from the shore.... Think of making your... More
- A man who has at length found something to do will not need to get a new suit to do it in; for... More
- A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture. More
- A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful,Mwhile his knowledge, so called,... More
- A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna... More
- A man’s real faith is never contained in his creed, nor is his creed an article of his faith.... More
- A man’s social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend... More
- A man’s whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result. More
- A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it... More
- A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age. More
- A more simple and natural man it would be hard to find. Vice and disease, which cast such a... More
- A mountain chain determines many things for the statesman and philosopher. The improvements of... More
- A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce... More
- A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the... More
- A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue... More
- A poem is one undivided, unimpeded expression fallen ripe into literature, and it is undividedly... More
- A red-headed woodpecker flew across the river, and the Indian remarked that it was good to eat. More
- A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were... More
- A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plow instead of a pen, could have drawn a... More
- A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince. More
- A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx... More
- A sober mind will walk alone,
Apart from nature, if need be,
And only its own seasons... More
- A solitary traveler whom we saw perambulating in the distance loomed like a giant. He appeared to... More
- A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and... More
- A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a... More
- A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his... More
- A strict regard for truth obliges us to say, that the few women whom we saw that day looked... More
- A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused. More
- A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white... More
- A temple, you know, was anciently “an open place without a roof,” whose walls served merely... More
- A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking... More
- A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it. More
- A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots... More
- A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and... More
- A true friend of man; almost the only friend of human progress.... With his hospitable intellect... More
- A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance... More
- A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests,... More
- A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows... More
- A village seems thus, where its able-bodied men are all plowing the ocean together, as a common... More
- A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all... More
- A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more... More
- Above all, he possessed a hearty good-will to all men, and never wrote a cross or even careless... More
- Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses... More
- Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a... More
- Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his... More
- According to my observation, a batteau, properly manned, shoots rapids as a matter of course,... More
- According to the historian, they escaped as by a miracle all roving bands of Indians, and reached... More
- According to the record of an old inhabitant of Tyngsborough, now dead, whose farm we were now... More
- Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations;... More
- Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to... More
- Adam and Eve, according to the fable, wore the bower before other clothes. Man wanted a home, a... More
- After a pause at Ball’s Hill, the St. Anne’s of Concord voyageurs, not to say any prayer for... More
- After a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had been put to me,... More
- After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is... More
- After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a... More
- After reading Howitt’s account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself... More
- After sitting in my chamber many days, reading the poets, I have been out early on a foggy... More
- After the first blush of sin comes its indifference. More
- After this rough walking in the dark woods it was an agreeable change to glide down the rapid... More
- After we had breakfasted by ourselves, one of our bed-fellows, who had also breakfasted, came... More
- After years of vain familiarity, some distant gesture or unconscious behavior, which we remember,... More
- Again it happens that the Boston Court-House is full of armed men, holding prisoner and trying a... More
- Again we mistook a little rocky islet seen through the “drisk,” with some taller bare trunks... More
- Again we took to the beach for another day (October 13), walking along the shore of the... More
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